What would be your perfect Mac?

[aphex]

Many complain Mac's are too expensive, or compromise too much function for form. So, out of curiosity, what would be your perfect mac?

Me?

12" Macbook Pro (4.5lbs or less)
LED Backlit LCD
Core 2 Duo
Backlit Chicklet Keyboard
120gb+ HD
Slotload SuperDrive
4gb Ram Capable
Graphics Card
$1799 or less

 

[Injury]

The Macbook Pro that I already have, but half the price or less. :-\

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

15" Macbook Pro
LED Backlit LCD
Cord 2 Duo Extreme
Backlit Macbook Keyboard
250GB 5400RPM
Slotload SuperDrive
4GB Ram
User replaceable Graphics Card
$1500-2000

 

[secretanchitman]

current form factor macbook pro
intel core 2 extreme (penryn of course)
silver or black aluminum (NO price uphike for a different color)
15" LED backlit (matte, NO glossy) with 1680x1050 (im sure they will eventually squeeze that many pixels into a 15" screen)
2.0MP camera (i think the current ones are 1.3MP)
bluetooth 2.1
8x slot-load superdrive
200GB 7200RPM HD
8800 series video card (upgradeable)
can go up to at least 4GB of memory and use the ddr2-800 speeds from the memory and not be limited to ddr2-667
3-4 USB ports
esata
$2000 max

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: aphex
Many complain Mac's are too expensive, or compromise too much function for form. So, out of curiosity, what would be your perfect mac?

Me?

12" Macbook Pro (4.5lbs or less)
LED Backlit LCD
Core 2 Duo
Backlit Chicklet Keyboard
120gb+ HD
Slotload SuperDrive
4gb Ram Capable
Graphics Card
$1799 or less

Pretty much just a 4-pound ultraportable MBP. 13" is fine with me, that is plenty small enough. I just want it to be as small or smaller than the current MacBook and weigh less (i.e. not feel like a brick when I pick it up like the 13" does).

For the desktop, my Hackintosh fulfills all of my needs. Although it would be sweet if they released a 2 or 3-drive SFF Shuttle-style headless Mac.

 

[Drakkon]

I have mine at work:

2x3.0Ghz Quad Core Xeons
32GB of ram
1TB of diskspace (4x500GB)
Quado FX 5600 card
and dual 23" displays

work spent WAY more on it than I'd ever be willing to spend personally - and the sad thing is we have 3 of them Frankly I'm happy with a dual core Imac or Mac Mini

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
I have mine at work:

2x3.0Ghz Quad Core Xeons
32GB of ram
1TB of diskspace (4x500GB)
Quado FX 5600 card
and dual 23" displays

work spent WAY more on it than I'd ever be willing to spend personally - and the sad thing is we have 3 of them Frankly I'm happy with a dual core Imac or Mac Mini

32gb ram...drooooool

 

[Drakkon]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Drakkon
I have mine at work:

2x3.0Ghz Quad Core Xeons
32GB of ram
1TB of diskspace (4x500GB)
Quado FX 5600 card
and dual 23" displays

work spent WAY more on it than I'd ever be willing to spend personally - and the sad thing is we have 3 of them Frankly I'm happy with a dual core Imac or Mac Mini

32gb ram...drooooool

Like I pmed ya - only use it for Maya and Final Cut Pro - really extensive Maya projects that require intensive rendering (such as we did a full sail battleship ship at sea with full water and wind) will use it all, and longer movies Final Cut Pro will pre-render which is pretty insane that a 1080i 30+ minute movie will save to mov in like 10 seconds - it will store the entire movie in memory until save.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Drakkon

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Drakkon
I have mine at work:

2x3.0Ghz Quad Core Xeons
32GB of ram
1TB of diskspace (4x500GB)
Quado FX 5600 card
and dual 23" displays

work spent WAY more on it than I'd ever be willing to spend personally - and the sad thing is we have 3 of them Frankly I'm happy with a dual core Imac or Mac Mini

32gb ram...drooooool

Like I pmed ya - only use it for Maya and Final Cut Pro - really extensive Maya projects that require intensive rendering (such as we did a full sail battleship ship at sea with full water and wind) will use it all, and longer movies Final Cut Pro will pre-render which is pretty insane that a 1080i 30+ minute movie will save to mov in like 10 seconds - it will store the entire movie in memory until save.

That's disgusting :laugh: My Hackintosh is a Quad + 8gb ram and I'm pretty happy with it for 24p mode on my HV20 camcorder, but for larger projects I definitely want something a bit speedier. I just added RAID 0 which helps the hard drive speeds, but it sounds like Final Cut uses the ram pretty extensively...guess I know what to look for in my next build

 

[randomlinh]

Portable:
Take the macbook air, add a 2.4ghz c2d, FW800, ethernet, 2 more USB ports.. and user replaceable battery, RAM, and HDD. Of course, it can be as thick as a macbook, just has to stay under 4lbs as well. I'd pay up to $1500 for this I think.

Desktop:
a slightly smaller profile mac pro case.
non-server grade stuff, so I can use some variant single processor option (Q6600 sounds good)
DDR2 non-FB
better video card support/options.
I'd pay somewhere between 1k and 1500

 

[freegeeks]

a Macbook or Macbook Pro with the capability of using 8GB ram or more. I use parallels all the time to test stuff for my work and the ram limit is holding me down of running lot's of vm

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: freegeeks
a Macbook or Macbook Pro with the capability of using 8GB ram or more. I use parallels all the time to test stuff for my work and the ram limit is holding me down of running lot's of vm

I believe the current generation of MacBook Pros (with the Santa Rosa chips) can support 8 gigs of ram (according to the Intel spec sheets I read), the problem is that nobody makes 4-gig laptop chips yet

 

[freegeeks]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: freegeeks
a Macbook or Macbook Pro with the capability of using 8GB ram or more. I use parallels all the time to test stuff for my work and the ram limit is holding me down of running lot's of vm

I believe the current generation of MacBook Pros (with the Santa Rosa chips) can support 8 gigs of ram (according to the Intel spec sheets I read), the problem is that nobody makes 4-gig laptop chips yet

they should figure out how to cram 4 memory slots on the mobo damnit

 

[erikistired]

i'm pretty happy with my mbp the way it is, altho i wish i'd opted for more hdd space. that can be easily remedied tho. oh, i wouldn't mind having one of the newer ones that can take 4gb of ram as well, but that's not apple's fault.

 

[alfa147x]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
I have mine at work:

2x3.0Ghz Quad Core Xeons
32GB of ram
1TB of diskspace (4x500GB)
Quado FX 5600 card
and dual 23" displays

 

[timswim78]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
I have mine at work:

2x3.0Ghz Quad Core Xeons
32GB of ram
1TB of diskspace (4x500GB)
Quado FX 5600 card
and dual 23" displays

work spent WAY more on it than I'd ever be willing to spend personally - and the sad thing is we have 3 of them Frankly I'm happy with a dual core Imac or Mac Mini

4 x 500 = 1,000??????????
Is it some type of RAID?

 

[kalster]

12" core 2 duo, with discrete graphics card.